Vehicle-seat



(Moaw I A. GUNDELFINGER.

Vehicle Seat.

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ANDREW GUNDELFINGER, OF JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI.

VEHICLE-SEAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 241,537, dated May 17,1881.

Application tiled September 27, 1880. (Model.)

To all whom it may concern: y

Be it known that I, ANDREW GUNDELEIN- GER, of Jefferson City, in thecounty of Cole and State of Missouri, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Vehicle-Seats 5 and I do hereby declare that thefollowing s a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, whichwill enable others skilled in the art to which it appertaius to make anduse the same, reference being had to the accompany ing drawings, whichform a part of this specilication, and in wbich- 1 Figure l is a pla-nView of a wagon box or body tted with myimproved seat. Fig. 1fh is adetail View of the seat-locking mechanism. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation ofmy sectional swinging seat; and Fig. 3 is a similar view, showing` amodification in the arrangementof the swinging seat-sections.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thegures.

My invention has relation to seats for vehicles; and it consists in animproved construction of a sectional swinging seat, as hereinafterdescribed, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, A is the box or body of a spring-wagon otany approved construction, upon the bottom of which, midway between itssides and at suitable distances apart, are cleats a a'. t t

B is 4the seat-support, the diverging legs of which are made withflanges fitting into the cleats a', and by making these cleatsconvergingand providingthesupportsB with a hinged plate, b, having adownward-projecting pin, b', which fits into a socket in the bottom ofthe wagon-box, the seatsupports may be held firmly yet detachably intheir respective places in the wagon-box.

Each of the seats is made in two parts, C O. In Fig. 2 I have shownthese sections hinged upon a pintle, f, which is attached to theseatsupport B, the outer end of each seat-section being supported uponthe sides of the wagonbox A and held in place bythe locking device shownclearly iu the detail View, Fig. 1f". This device is simplya rod hingedin tbe outer end ot' the seat-section and bent to form a crank, g',which may be turned down to interlock with ears or catches 71I h,projecting from the wagonsides. Other means of fastening theseat-sections may be. adopted, if desired.

y Instead oi' hin ging the seat-sections together i upon the middlesupport, B, this arrangement may be reversed, as shown in Fig. 3, inwhich each of the seat-sections is provided with a pintle, c, at itsouter end, which ts into sockets arranged on the inner sides of thewagonbox sides. The inner end of each seat-section basa short stud orpin, c', which, when the seat-sections are swung back in their locked orclosed position, bears against the front side of the middle support, B,and thus prevents the seats from being swung too far back when occupied.

l prefer to construct the wagon-box witha folding end-gate, D, which, byunfolding its several hinged sections, forms a'coinvenient means ofaccess to the Wagon from the rear, and by opening tbe swingingseat-sections the front part of tbe wagon may readily be reached.

Having thus described myinvcntion, I claiin and desire to secure byLetters Patent of the United States- The combination of the wagon box orbody A, detachable seat-supports B, and detachable swingingseat-sections O O, substantially as and for the purpose herein shownaudspecitied.

ln testimony' that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aflixedmy signature in presence of two witnesses.

ANDREW GUNDELFINGER. y

Vitnesses:

JOHN ANTWEILER, HENRY HAE-ts.

